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Monthly Archives: July 2014

The War on Workers

Thursday, July 10, 2014

Read this. Just when you think they are as scummy as they can get, you find out they are even scummier.

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Money for nothing

Wednesday, July 9, 2014

I'm not an economist, never having progressed beyond the intro course in college, though I have been trying to educate myself. I've often expressed what I can only call my intuition that all the Wall Street folks are doing at this stage is skimming money out of the economic system without providing anything of value […]

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Only in America

Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Here's a question. Has there ever been a time in our national history when so many people have been so crazy? The immediate impetus for this question? This: Glenn Beck plans to bring soccer balls and hot meals to migrant children this month, his career be damned. “I’ve never taken a position more deadly to […]

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Yet another modest proposal

Monday, July 7, 2014

I've written in the past about the H1-B visa program (e.g. here), a device used by American corporations to replace American workers with short term “guest” workers, who themselves are often exploited by the companies who bring them over here. There is no economic justification for this program. The companies claim that there are not […]

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Yet another map

Monday, July 7, 2014

Well, this one is a no brainer, but yet more proof that the Old South, and the red states in general, have a virtual lock on the bottom half of any continuum you want to suggest. This, from the Daily Kos, maps out the poverty rate for the country as a whole. No surprises here: […]

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Let’s get it right this time

Friday, July 4, 2014

Regular readers of this blog know that I have been a semi-tongue in cheek advocate of secession by the rational states. It is coincidentally the case that the rational fringe contains all the states (or nearly all, Indiana can be a problem, as can West Virginia) that fought for the North last time the issue […]

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This could happen here

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

As anyone who follows Connecticut politics knows, Jonathan Pelto is either running for governor or thinking about running for governor. I sympathize with a lot of what Pelto has to say. I do fear that Malloy is out to destroy the public schools. I suspect that in Malloy's case his motivation is a lifetime of […]

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